Research Area：　　Food Production　　　　

Research Specialization：　Animal Nutrition　
Name：　　  KAWASAKI, Kiyonori　

Keywords： black soldier fly, sustainable agriculture, swine, rabbit

1.　Development of Sustainable Food production System Using the Functions of Insects

　At a Global level, the use of insect as waste bioconverters for the production of innovative products is a very hot topic. The larvae stage of the Black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (BSF) can convert large volumes of low-grade organic substrates into valuable biomass.

　We evaluate the products (FEED and FERTILIZER) obtained through the bioconversion of organic waste by BSF larvae.

2. Effect of Feeding Unused Resources on Livestock

　We investigate what kind of changes will occur in livestock by using food byproducts and regional resources (such as wine filtration residues and olive lees) that have not been used yet by intestinal flora analysis or metabolome analysis

3.Development and Dissemination of Cuniculture

　Rabbit production (CUNICULTURE) could be an important source of food for Japanese people, because high-protein meat can be produced from rabbits mostly fed on grass in only 70 days. Moreover, rabbit meat could become an important alternative source of protein for people with food intolerance to beef, pork and/or chicken.

　In our laboratory we study differences between Japanese and overseas in the cuniculture, rabbit feed, nutrition of rabbit meat, and illness of rabbits.